Wyoming

RAWLINS – Laboratory tests and analysis have conclusively ruled out several causes, including chronic wasting disease, some insecticides and a variety of metals, in the mysterious deaths of elk southwest of Rawlins. Through Thursday afternoon, Feb. 26, the death total had grown to 275. The work being done by the Read more…

LARAMIE — Statewide surveillance to monitor chronic wasting disease (CWD) is finished, thanks to new testing procedures that allowed the Game and Fish Department to analyze more than twice the number of samples in half the time. The ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay) test, which certified in 2002, allowed G&F Read more…

CHEYENNE – There’s much to learn yet about chronic wasting disease, but this is known: a 16-page color booklet with the most up-to-date information about the disease in Wyoming is available to interested individuals. The publication was produced by the magazine and veterinary staffs of the Game and Fish Department Read more…

LARAMIE, Wyo. – Four deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in new areas of southern Wyoming. The deer were killed in three hunt areas in Carbon County, and were among 3,893 animals tested for the fatal brain malady by the State Veterinary Lab in Laramie. The new infected Read more…

LUSK/MOORCROFT – Chronic wasting disease has been found in the Black Hills, but the only real news is that it took so long to show up. Two mule deer and a white-tailed deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in three new hunt areas. One of those animals came Read more…

WASHINGTON — The federal government is pitching in $4 million to help key states in their efforts to combat chronic wasting disease. State officials and researchers in Montana and Wyoming say the money will enhance efforts to monitor and manage deer and elk with the neurological disease. The disease can Read more…

LARAMIE — Researchers from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the State Veterinary Laboratory recently completed tests to monitor chronic wasting disease (CWD), a disease of some deer and elk. Researchers analyzed 2,550 samples – 1,755 deer and 795 elk — during Wyoming’s 2002 hunting season, with 105 deer Read more…

RAWLINS, Wyo. – No more cases of chronic wasting disease have been found in Carbon County as testing for the fatal brain malady is nearing completion. Hank Edwards, a disease specialist with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, said 2,301 of 2,318 samples submitted by hunters have been tested by Read more…

CASPER – Four mule deer, harvested from areas where chronic wasting disease had previously not been found, recently tested positive for the disease. Three of the mule deer were harvested in the extreme southeast corner of Hunt Area 34 just northwest of Casper. “Finding CWD in Hunt Area 34 was Read more…

LARAMIE — Hunters and others interested in chronic wasting disease, a fatal disease affecting some of the deer and elk herds in southeast Wyoming, are invited to attend a meeting of the subject hosted by the Game and Fish Department. During a two-hour presentation, participants will be given the most Read more…